Garment-clasp.



J. LEMAY.

GARMENT CLASP.

APPLIOATION FILED Nov. 1e, 1910.

1,030,098. Patented June 18,1912. W 2 M5'. W4!

WITNESSES: INVENTOR JOSEPH LEMAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARIVIENT-CLASP.

` specieauon of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1912.

Application led. November 18, 1910. Serial No. 593,052.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnri-I LEMAY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invent-ed certain new and use-ful Improvements in Garment-Clasps; and I do declare t-he following to be a full, clear, and` exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in garment clasps and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient device of this description and also a clasp readily manipulated, and with these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and combination ofparts hereinafter fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claim which conclude this description.

In the accompanying drawing Figure l is an elevation of my approved form of clasp. Fig. 2 a detail elevation of the wire loop. Fig. 3 a detail elevation of the flexible tab with button attached. Fig. 1 a detail elevation showing the flexible tab as it appears before the button is connected to the ends thereof. Fig. 5 an elevation showing my improvement clasped to a garment. Fig. 6 a detail sectional view showing the button eyeleted to the end of the tab. Fig. 7 an elevation of a modified form of my improvement so far as the tab is concerned.

Fig.8 a section atthe lineX, X, of Fig. 5 and Fig. 9 an enlarged section of Fig. 5.

Similar numerals of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

My improvement relates to that style of garment clasp which employs a metal loop and flexible tab `secured at its upper end to the loop element and carrying at its lower end a stud or button, but in most devices of this sort as heretofore used the button element has been provided with some sort of a shank, which lat-ter is either rigid or flexiat the line y, y,

ble, so that in clasping position the tab is i inside the loop while the side wires of the loop are immediately beneath the button and between the latter and the tab itself. In other words, the button element alone has been outside the metal loop in clasping position.

The main object of my present improvei to inclose the free ends of the tab 8.

ment is to provide an improved button element that is absolutely shankless so that the side wires of the loop cannot possibly wedge the garment against any shank element.

Referring to Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, l is the usual metal loop enlarged at the top and contracted at the bottom, the side wires of the loop at the top of the enlarged portion being crossed, while the loop itself is attached toany suit-able webbing 2 in the usual manner.

I prefer to make the suspension tab 3 from a piece of webbing or tape doubled and having a button t secured to the free ends thereof, as shown in the figures of the drawing above referred to, this tape or webbing being then noosed around the crossed wires at the upper portion of the loop in the manner shown, because when the button carrying tab is connected in this manner to the loop such tab may readily be removed and replaced by another without any sewing or other fastening means while the noose in the form of a double half hitch coperates with the cross wires to hold the tab securely centered at the top of the gripping loop.

In operating my improvement the fabric t is placed over the butt-on and the latter together with the tab inserted through the enlarged .portion of the loop into a plane wholly wit-hout said loop, and the button is then forced downwardly thereby forcing the fabric down through the contracted portion of the loop so that it cannot pull loose from the button element while there is a strain on the clasp as will be noted particularly by reference to Figs. 5, S, and 9.

My improved and preferred shankless button construction is illustrated in Fig. 6. Two disks 5k5 of suitable stiff material such as paper stock, are superposed so as Suitable riveting means shown here in the form of an eyelet 6 is passed first through one disk then through the tab ends and then through the second disk so as to clamp the said disks together and against opposite sides of said tab ends.

While I prefer to use a tab in loop form so that it may be noosed around the upper portion of the loop, nevertheless I can employ any suitable flexible tab secured in any suitable manner within the scope of the appended claim to the upper portion of the loop and therefore at Fig. 7 I have illustrated a tab 7 made of fabric, leather or other flexible material and secured to the loop by any suitable means such as an eyelet 8, and I therefore do not wish to belimited to any specific form of tab or manner of securing the same in position so long as it bears a shankless button at its extreme lower end and in clasping position is wholly beyond the outer plane oi' t-he loop.

My improvement possesses marked advantages in that it does away with the necessity of employing, in the construction of the clasp, any yielding or clinging material either on the loop or button, since I prefer to use a perfectly rigid and smooth button element, the holding property oi' my improvement being due to the dilierence in diameter between the button element and the lower portion of the loop and to the Jfact that the garment extends snugly around the button and between the side wires of the loop this clamping quality being further augmented by the fact that the fabric entirely envelops the but-ton above and below,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing while there is not the slightest semblance of either a flexible or rigid shank to the button.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A garment' clasp comprising a gripping loop-member; a flexible tab depending from the top of said loop-member; and a fiat button-member secured to said tab so as to hang adjacent to but outside of the gripping portion of said gripping loop-member and comprising, two superimposed thin, stiif disks inclosing the free end of said tab and riveting means passing through said disks and the said tab-end to clamp the said disks together and against opposite sides of said tab-end. Y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH LEMAY.

the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

